I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 in my Asus X101CH Eee PC, using a live usb which I made using startup disk creator, replacing Ubuntu 12.04. The installation ran smoothly, but when I boot, it goes to a purple screen for a second, then a lot of text like the following shows up in sequence:

And the cursor just keeps blinking for hours. I can't log in. Pressing Alt + F2 did not bring me to console mode.

I thought it might be a partition problem so I formatted the whole disk, by creating a new partition table using gparted in Ubuntu 12.04 live USB. I noticed that I can't try Ubuntu using 12.10 live USB either; it just went to a blank screen when I hit the 'try ubuntu' button.

But the same problem arose. I even changed the pen drive for the live USB a couple of times.

I happened to know that the Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail CPU in my computer is not well supported in Linux, I managed to install its drivers in Ubuntu 12.04, although the computer went blank during the installation.

@helper234234 can anyone verify this? For a complete and total newcomer to linux (sorry) can someone babytalk me through the install? I bought this very netbook hoping to install and start learning Linux on the cheap, and I'm not even in the door yet!
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BenOct 26 '12 at 14:23

similar experience with my asus netbook x101CH (atom N2600) Lubuntu 12.10 worked fine until alpha3 ! See bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058633 I gave up and installed opensuse 12.2 Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop. It is less 'dummy'-friendly and perhaps slower, but it works.
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user101928Oct 29 '12 at 14:45